Aaron Jarosław

Aaron ben Zechariah Friedenthal of Jarosław (Template:Langx; Template:Floruit), also known as simply Aaron Jarosław, was a Galician Maskilic writer, editor, and publisher.Template:R He was a member of Moses Mendelssohn's Biurist school of Biblical exegesis.

Biography

Aaron Friedenthal was born in Jarosław, Galicia, and studied at Berlin.Template:R He was a tutor in the house of Moses Mendelssohn;Template:R afterwards, he returned to Galicia to serve as a teacher in the new Jewish schools, eventually becoming a director of the Galician state educational system.Template:R

Friedenthal's commentary on the Book of Numbers appeared in the first edition of Mendelssohn's Pentateuch (Netivot ha-Shalom, Berlin, 1783) and was included in all subsequent editions.Template:RTemplate:R He edited the third edition of Maimonides's Beʾur Millot ha-Higgayon ('Words of Logic'), with Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew commentary (Berlin, 1784). He also published the first posthumous editions (Lemberg, 1790 and 1791), with a new preface.Template:R

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